Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Kafka, Franz

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

10.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

11.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

12.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

13.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

15.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

17.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

18.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

19.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

20.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

22.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

23.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

24.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

26.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

27.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

29.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

30.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

31.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

32.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

33.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

34.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

35.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

36.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

37.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

38.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

40.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

43.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

44.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

45.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

46.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

47.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

48.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

49.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

50.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall